It is strange how just sitting at a computer sometimes, reading the mail in your inbox, can take you through emotional changes. I was chilling at the keyboard the other day when a message hit my Inbox and drove my blood pressure up twenty points within three seconds of opening it.

Someone at my kid’s school was writing to say “the kid missed one class too many in his first-period course, and now you and the kid have to come in and get lectured.” Of course, the memo from the school didn’t read that way. It’s a form letter that some zombie robot composed when Gerald Ford was in the White House, and that has never been updated since. Here’s the actual Zombie Memo, with details changed to protect the innocent and the zombies both Read more…

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